The long struggle over what to call ‘undocumented immigrants’ or as Trump said in his order ‘illegal aliens’; Police knew about illegal housing, parties at Oakland warehouse before fire that killed 36, but took no action; The science behind every parent’s nightmare: Stepping barefoot on a Lego brick; NSFW, photobomb, face-palm, microaggression: Merriam Webster adds 1,000 fresh words to the dictionary; Hillary Clinton just said it, but ‘the future is female’ began as a 1970s lesbian separatist slogan; Beyoncé controversially sampled New Orleans culture in ‘Lemonade.’ Now she’s being sued for it.; Dog food recalled after euthanasia drug found in can. One dog dead.; Her arms trapped in a clothing donation bin, she dangled helplessly through the cold night and died; Report: A quarter of teenagers who use e-cigarettes have tried ‘dripping’;   Stories from All Over   Spicer claims he ‘clearly meant Orlando’ after citing mystery Atlanta terror attack three times The incident drew comparisons to Kellyanne Conway's "Bowling Green Massacre." By Katie Mettler  •  Read more » The long struggle over what to call ‘undocumented immigrants’ or as Trump said in his order ‘illegal aliens’ "Illegal alien” and terms like it were originally proposed as a substitute for racial slurs. By Derek Hawkins  •  Read more »   Police knew about illegal housing, parties at Oakland warehouse before fire that killed 36, but took no action Oakland city records released Wednesday showed that police responded to dozens of calls — including an illegal “rave" — at the warehouse and its neighboring properties in the two years before the Dec. 2 fatal inferno. By Samantha Schmidt  •  Read more »   The science behind every parent’s nightmare: Stepping barefoot on a Lego brick A small and square Lego brick can withstand a force of up to 4,240 Newtons. By Ben Guarino  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   NSFW, photobomb, face-palm, microaggression: Merriam Webster adds 1,000 fresh words to the dictionary “This is a significant addition of words to our dictionary, and it reflects both the breadth of English vocabulary and the speed with which that vocabulary changes,” said a dictionary publisher. By Ben Guarino  •  Read more »   Hillary Clinton just said it, but ‘the future is female’ began as a 1970s lesbian separatist slogan The words got popular in 2015, but the slogan was created 40 years earlier. By Katie Mettler  •  Read more »   Beyoncé controversially sampled New Orleans culture in ‘Lemonade.’ Now she’s being sued for it. Angel Barré, sister of late New Orleans bounce rapper Messy Mya, has filed a suit against the singer for sampling her brother's voice. By Travis M. Andrews  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Dog food recalled after euthanasia drug found in can. One dog dead. One pug named Talula died after being fed the Evanger's Hunk of Beef dog food on New Year's Eve. Three other pugs in the same household were also hospitalized and were “acting drunk” and “falling over,” the owner said. By Samantha Schmidt  •  Read more »   Her arms trapped in a clothing donation bin, she dangled helplessly through the cold night and died Police in rural Natalie, Pa., say she was "fishing bags out" of the box from a stepladder when it collapsed. By Travis M. Andrews  •  Read more »   Report: A quarter of teenagers who use e-cigarettes have tried ‘dripping’ “Everybody assumes vaping is a safer way [than cigarettes] of administering nicotine,” a Yale University psychiatrist said, “but we know so little about the risks of vaping." By Ben Guarino  •  Read more »   Recommended for you   The Switch The day's top stories on the tech industry and tech in our lives. Sign Up »         Share Morning Mix:       Twitter      Facebook Trouble reading? Click here to view in your browser. You received this email because you signed up for Morning Mix. For additional free newsletters or to manage your newsletters, click here. We respect your privacy. If you believe that this email has been sent to you in error or you no longer wish to receive email from The Washington Post, click here. Contact us for help. ©2017 The Washington Post, 1301 K St NW, Washington DC 20071